Books Quote by Jean-Luc Marion

We don't simply read books. We become them.

— Anatole Broyard

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.”

— Isaac Goldberg

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

— Mark Helprin

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

— Jim Cummings

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett